Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition - Financial Management - Third Edition

By : Mohamed Aamer Ala El Din
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition - Financial Management - Third Edition

By: Mohamed Aamer Ala El Din

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance and operations is a rapidly growing application and is widely used in enterprise organizations. Because of its ability to maximize business productivity, it is a fast-growing business application package in the ERP market. We will start by looking into ERP concepts, implementation needs, and interface design, giving you basic knowledge of financial management aspects and explaining key concepts along the way. To begin with, you'll be taken through the general ledger and financial dimension functions. You'll later learn about the sales tax mechanism and multi-currency in Microsoft Dynamics 365. We tackle each topic with focused examples and explanations on topics such as payable/receivable accounts, forecasting, cash and bank management, budgeting planning/control, and fixed assets. Finally, we walk you through intercompany, consolidation, costing basics, and financial reporting. By the end of this book, your finance team will have a much richer understanding of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance and operations and its powerful capabilities.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Controlling cash and bank management


Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations offers five main controls over bank and cash management. It is one of the key objectives of ERP that it controls in order to make the most of having an ERP application in place. These control functionalities should be highlighted to the process owners to be utilized efficiently.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations emphasizes control, as well as new business functionalities. Some of these controls were introduced prior Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Some Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations cash and bank controls are shown in the following diagram:

The controls shown in the preceding diagram are defined as follows:

  • Credit limit: This allows for credit limit control on the bank account
  • Date activation: This detects activation dates control
  • Status activation: This detects the activation status on bank transactions
  • General ledger reconciliation: This assigns one ledger...